Patricia, I tend to disagree with your statement. I do agree we need to treat all students equally but not all situations are equal. What this means is we must take full advantage of our ability to be human and not robots. A robot simply reads lines of code and never alters the direction unless the code changes. In live the code changes all the time so it is difficult to treat each situation equally as the circumstances will be different. If one student meets the same criteria as an other then the same result should occur but different circumstances will require a different path which will have a different result yet you treated both students equally as you evaluated the circumstances without bias. This can be confusing and does require more energy but in the end it is what makes a good instructor great, that ability to treat each student equally but realize each situation is different and therefore each outcome can be different. James Jackson